Carolyn+Staudt

Room: **Empire A**

= = = Innovative Technology in Science Inquiry: Scale Up =

= **Carolyn Staudt** =
 * **Curriculum and Professional Development**
 * **Concord Consortium** http://www.concord.org
 * cstaudt@concord.org

Also presenting is Melanie Hoskins (hoskinsm@allentownsd.org) a CFF coach has participated during the past two years as a staff developer for ITSI. She will continue this year to help select and work with teachers to design SAS aligned lessons for the PA Department of Education.

The Innovative Technology in Science Inquiry: Scale Up (ITSI-SU) project prepares diverse students for careers in information technologies by engaging them in exciting, inquiry-based science projects that use computational models and real-time date acquisitions. ITSI has produced dozens of activities in middle school earth, physical and life sciences and high school physics, chemistry and biology using a range of commercial and homemade sensors as well as open source or research-based software, including Molecular Workbench, NetLogo, Physics Education Technology (PhET) and Seismic Eruption. The project has been able to create a wealth of standards-based activities by leveraging the work of prior National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded projects and by authoring in an online template-based interface. This project is an Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) f unded by NSF Grant DRL-0929540.

· Participants will be able to try out some of the activities and see how they would fit in their own classroom.

· Participants will learn to customize ITSI science inquiry easily to fit their classrooms and engage their local communities using the web-based interface.   You can access the Innovative Technology in Science Inquiry website at **http://www.concord.org/projects/itsi-su**. To login as a Student or Teacher at **http://itsisu.portal.concord.org/signin**/. If you sign in as a student you can be added into a class by a teacher. If you login as a teacher, you can follow how to setup classes at **http://itsisu.portal.concord.org/help/**.   Each teacher can customize the exemplar activities at **http://itsisu.portal.concord.org/activities/** once they are logged in. All exemplar activities follow the 5E's inquiry format and embed careers into the work. It will automatically transfer you to the Do It Yourself (DIY) site that will allow you to author. It is up to you if you want to make your work private or public.   Two additional sites at the Concord Consortium to check out are **http://probesight.concord.org** and **http://careersight.concord.org**.   Additional PowerPoint as a download.